Reply #1: "Nichols warned area residents to lock their doors at night"

[Javaman]

there are communities that still feel safe enough these days to keep their doors unlocked at night?

Our innocence ended in my neighborhood in 1968 when an engineer who worked for Grumman Aerospace shotgunned his wife and then tried to kill their infant son.

The son survived, was adopted by a neighbor.

The guy only got 10 years. On the day he was release, he vowed to kill his son. The family that adopted the son, vanished. Moved without a word to anyone. No one knows where they went or what happened to them. No doubt, it was the best thing they did because, several days went by and a strange man posing as a police officer was making the rounds in the neighborhood trying to find info about the family.

He came to my house, my mom answered the door. He claimed to be a police officer. My uncle was a cop at the time. My mom said to them, (like something straight out of the treasure of sierra madre) If your a cop, were is your badge?" My mom told me that they guy sort of fumbled some sort of explanation about being undercover. My mom, never shy, told the guy he was full of shit. She called the cops. They never caught the guy and he never showed up again.

This is how one colossal bastard murderer can ruin lives, families and a neighborhood.